THE BEST WEEKEND
okay, this weekend rocked, i have not had this much fun in a very very very long time.
It all started friday afternoon, i got home from school, relaxed for a little bit, put on my uniform and went to the Change of Command. At first i thought the ceremony would be long and boring, but it ended up being quite interesting and rewarding, litterally, i received 4 more ribbons, two varisity letters, and two medals, one which i was presented with by some capt. guy who works with the american legion, i was rewarded the American Legion Silver Marksman Medal, for riffle team. Apparently I am the first freshman in Herndon NJROTC to receive this award, since it's so high. The I got my Ribbons, and at the end of the ceremony, my favorite of all seniors Nick Ericson gave me a medal he earned his freshman year, and told me that if i kept up the work i could do very well in the unit and in life, that touched me, he's a really great friend. Well after those two medals, and the 4 ribbons i now have a very heavy left side of my shirt which consists of 11 kickass ribbons, and 6 kickass medals, and no other freshman is as decorated as i am. I am the freshman wind chime, if you know what i'm talking about. Then aftewards, i receive the phone call i had been waiting to get for about two years. It said, hey are you free this weekend?, can you come down here? As soon as I got home, i packed my bags, and headed for leesburg.
I spent the night at my cousins' and the Saturday at 6 AM i left for Colonial Beach. On the way there we stopped at a starbucks, and picked up a couple of frapuccinoes, which were quite good to wake you up at 6 in the morn. Anyways we get to Fredericksburg, at around 7 where we're supposed to meet someone, we get there, and the person we were supposed to meet came about an thirty minutes late, then when he got there we left for colonial beach. When we got tehre, the first thing i saw was the beach, and infront of it houses, we were lucky enough that the house we were going to, had an ocean front. Great Stuff. We got there, and did some work here and there, tidying up the place, then hung around the beach, met a couple of the locals. At around 6 or so, we headed back to fredericksburg to spend the night, at the coolest place in the world. On our way back we stopped at a huge arcade played some games, went go kartin', played putt putt golf, then headed home. On our way there we stopped at the outdoors store, to get our paintball tanks refilled with gas, bought a laser, and about 2000 paintballs, making our stash of about 5000 to spend. When we finally reached the house, we went loco, first we rode around on the golf kart, then did some paintballing at night around 10 when it was dark, grilled some burgers outside, and ate them around 11, went to bed about an hour later.
Today, Sunday, we woke up at around 5-30, and took a little trip to the lake, wehre we went to play yet more paintball. We got tehre and decided to go for a little boat ride, took our bosses' boat into the lake, and went paintball hunting, for ducks and all the aquatic life we could fine on top of the water. We came back ashore around 9, when we drove the golf kart like idiots all around the place. At 10 we went to gather our breakfast which consisted of fresh chiken eggs, which we gathered ourselves, and sausage, which was frozen so we didn't have to get messy. Then around 11 we headed back for colonial beach, worked a little bit more, got in touch with a couple of the locals we met earlier, like Kristen, Crystal, Emmily, Jake, and a couple others... had a great view of the beach. And i mean a GREAT VIEW, we could see EVERYTHING that we liked ;)... Then we headed home, i got back around 10, after a great weekend, and i better go to sleep because i need to be up at 6...
and I thought my weekend was going to suck....AND GUESS WHAT!! I GET TO DO IT ALL OVER AGAIN ONCE EVERY OTHER WEEK!!!!
SEMPER FIDELIS
It all started friday afternoon, i got home from school, relaxed for a little bit, put on my uniform and went to the Change of Command. At first i thought the ceremony would be long and boring, but it ended up being quite interesting and rewarding, litterally, i received 4 more ribbons, two varisity letters, and two medals, one which i was presented with by some capt. guy who works with the american legion, i was rewarded the American Legion Silver Marksman Medal, for riffle team. Apparently I am the first freshman in Herndon NJROTC to receive this award, since it's so high. The I got my Ribbons, and at the end of the ceremony, my favorite of all seniors Nick Ericson gave me a medal he earned his freshman year, and told me that if i kept up the work i could do very well in the unit and in life, that touched me, he's a really great friend. Well after those two medals, and the 4 ribbons i now have a very heavy left side of my shirt which consists of 11 kickass ribbons, and 6 kickass medals, and no other freshman is as decorated as i am. I am the freshman wind chime, if you know what i'm talking about. Then aftewards, i receive the phone call i had been waiting to get for about two years. It said, hey are you free this weekend?, can you come down here? As soon as I got home, i packed my bags, and headed for leesburg.
I spent the night at my cousins' and the Saturday at 6 AM i left for Colonial Beach. On the way there we stopped at a starbucks, and picked up a couple of frapuccinoes, which were quite good to wake you up at 6 in the morn. Anyways we get to Fredericksburg, at around 7 where we're supposed to meet someone, we get there, and the person we were supposed to meet came about an thirty minutes late, then when he got there we left for colonial beach. When we got tehre, the first thing i saw was the beach, and infront of it houses, we were lucky enough that the house we were going to, had an ocean front. Great Stuff. We got there, and did some work here and there, tidying up the place, then hung around the beach, met a couple of the locals. At around 6 or so, we headed back to fredericksburg to spend the night, at the coolest place in the world. On our way back we stopped at a huge arcade played some games, went go kartin', played putt putt golf, then headed home. On our way there we stopped at the outdoors store, to get our paintball tanks refilled with gas, bought a laser, and about 2000 paintballs, making our stash of about 5000 to spend. When we finally reached the house, we went loco, first we rode around on the golf kart, then did some paintballing at night around 10 when it was dark, grilled some burgers outside, and ate them around 11, went to bed about an hour later.
Today, Sunday, we woke up at around 5-30, and took a little trip to the lake, wehre we went to play yet more paintball. We got tehre and decided to go for a little boat ride, took our bosses' boat into the lake, and went paintball hunting, for ducks and all the aquatic life we could fine on top of the water. We came back ashore around 9, when we drove the golf kart like idiots all around the place. At 10 we went to gather our breakfast which consisted of fresh chiken eggs, which we gathered ourselves, and sausage, which was frozen so we didn't have to get messy. Then around 11 we headed back for colonial beach, worked a little bit more, got in touch with a couple of the locals we met earlier, like Kristen, Crystal, Emmily, Jake, and a couple others... had a great view of the beach. And i mean a GREAT VIEW, we could see EVERYTHING that we liked ;)... Then we headed home, i got back around 10, after a great weekend, and i better go to sleep because i need to be up at 6...
and I thought my weekend was going to suck....AND GUESS WHAT!! I GET TO DO IT ALL OVER AGAIN ONCE EVERY OTHER WEEK!!!!
SEMPER FIDELIS